Reinvention Culture

A reinvention culture is an organisation’s collective willingness to question what is still working before circumstances force it to.

My side hustle

Side Hustle: The Question Employers Avoid

I import American everyday carry products and it is exactly the kind of boring business YouTubers keep discovering. I also have a second e-commerce selling decks and innovation tools and chair a heritage railway preservation association. All three take the…

Expertise-experience-excellence

The end of Expertise, Experience and Excellence

For years the equation looked simple. Be an expert, accumulate experience, aim for excellence, and everything would work out. The trio of expertise, experience and excellence was your immunity charm against unemployment, obsolescence and awkward questions. Being the best in…

company manifesto examples

The most inspiring manifesto of the world

Company manifesto examples are easier to admire than to learn from, because most collections reprint the text and stop there. What follows is a curated set with what each one is doing, why it works, and a link to read…

Transformation or reinvention

Transformation or reinvention

I will not open this like a consultant’s brochure. Actually I will, briefly, because the obvious needs stating: customer preferences that hold for a week, markets that appear and vanish, political fatigue and economic disorder all threaten the existence of…

mug printed with the art of unlearning

The art of unlearning is a status problem

The art of unlearning is always presented as a mental exercise. You are meant to fight your biases, agree to empty your glass and clean house among your beliefs. I repeated that line in keynotes for years, until a field…

blog innovation by benjamin chaminade

Why this blog “benjamin chaminade”?

Why this blog? The question is a fair one, and Benjamin Chaminade still asks it himself. A blogger since 2004, I had sworn never to run a site under my own name beyond my LinkedIn profile. Out of discretion. Out…